Ye, it's really not as bad as people make it out to be, even with something like LT and Decrip. I mean, if you can't survive because your LT just got overwritten by Decrip then you're clearly doing something else wrong.
RE the rest: Fair enough, I just found them reaaally squishy. If you can get your DR close to 50% then that's great, but other than that Defense is the only way to shrug off hits. I guess Treachery's res, DR (Fade should be active most of the time on this char), FHR and IAS is tough to beat
Also, dont forget reaper's toll. Its a dark horse, among the top non-dupeword weapons for almost all 2h melee builds.
Personally, I would go with a kira's guardian. It's so amazing for this build that I can't fathom why would you use anything else. It has cannot be frozen, tons of resists and FHR to boot. If you socket it with a shael rune you have half your FHR right there.
Then again, I would advocate the champion axe BoTD instead of the other options, because I'm a speed freak, and you have so many things you HAVE to cover (IAS breakpoint, FHR breakpoint, resists, life/mana leech, +skills, etc) that there's not a great deal of flexibility.
I'd go with:
helm: kira's guardian (shael or um)
amulet: highlord's wrath
weapon: EBotD Champion Axe
armor: I'd really like to try ormus' robes (with 15% across all elements), but pretty much anything here will be useful from fortitude to chains of honor and even duriel's shell. CoH is probably the best if you can afford it. CoH + kira's cover all your resists nicely.
gloves: Laying of Hands
belt: the good old string of ears or verdungo's hearty cord
rings: 2 life/mana leech rings (remember, you don't need raven because kira's give cannot be frozen)
boots: War travs if you're going with shael'd kiras and the lower FHR; or treks if you're not.
By switching the weapon it allows for a lot of different gear choices since your pretty much reliant on the armor to provide the extra ias that you need to hit the last breakpoint. At this point you could go for any of the armors you mentioned since they would probably work out nicely.
The kira's suggestion however I don't really agree on, mainly because you actually lose FHR, DR%, a possible extra socket and a plus skill. For what?some extra resist and cbf. Personally Raven frost is probably the best to have anyway since it has a nice dex and attack rating boost with the cbf mod. If you can afford the COA, go for it, with an Um rune its comprable and imo better than kira's.
I was thinking it more as an alternative for vampire gaze. Of corse if you have access to a CoA, then it will surpass both gaze and kiras easily.
Crit only works with the physical part of his damage and has no affect on Vengeance. If he uses that setup where does the other ~120 all res he needs come from?
That setup would only result in a dead paladin. A two-handed Avenger is not an uninterruptible WW barb with 5k HP or a shielded Grief-Zealot.
Thanks for your reply. Do you have any idea on my 2nd question, casting holy shield then switching to the 2-hand weapon?Good suggestions. Too bad this thread is two and a half years old. Everybody who posted on it is probably dead by now.
Good suggestions. Too bad this thread is two and a half years old. Everybody who posted on it is probably dead by now.
Well, a question is: why do you think that Treachery is a must because of its 45 IAS?
On a 2h avenger, you won't have the defense bonus from Holy Shield, so you won't be able to get high defense no matter what armor you are wearing. Maybe if you have a Barb using high level Shout and a defiance merc around at all times. But even then, defense is just not a reliable survival stat in my opinion. Vit, resists, %DR, FHR,and PDR are much better.I would like to recommend armors with high defense
This rarely if ever happens. You can just prep your character by going to the Cold Plains and getting hit a few times to trigger Fade at the start of your session. Without a shield, you'll get hit enough that Fade will always be up.it is dangerous if you encounter huge elemental attack before fade is activated
Everybody who posted on it is probably dead by now.
YOU'RE DEAD!@
I'm confused. This is clearly the Paladin forum, but you're all a bunch of necros.
Treachery is great not only for the IAS, but also Fade, which boosts resists (60%) and adds 15%DR. It also has FHR, so it provides four stats a 2h Paladin really values.
On a 2h avenger, you won't have the defense bonus from Holy Shield, so you won't be able to get high defense no matter what armor you are wearing. Maybe if you have a Barb using high level Shout and a defiance merc around at all times. But even then, defense is just not a reliable survival stat in my opinion. Vit, resists, %DR, FHR,and PDR are much better.